Quotes About Influence

I started it all, I created the role of Peter Parker.

Both Peter Chan and Wong Kar Wai are directors that I respect very much.

European civil society and NGOs that petition for favours and influence for their special interests are often themselves funded from E.U. coffers. This creates a system of patronage that encourages self-reinforcing group-think and a cloying sycophancy.

Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the partisanship, the gridlock, the pettiness, and the corruption.

Whether you're Michael Waltrip or Jeff Gordon or Richard Petty, you can't be the Daytona 500 champion without it having an impact on people around you. When I say that, I mean the race fans. They want to congratulate you for winning the biggest race of the year. It has changed people's perception of me.

When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.

I originally wanted to go into sports, but my first concert was KISS at the shooting of 'KISS Meets The Phantom Of The Park.' The minute I saw Gene and Paul... it was all over. I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

Growing up, my parents loved Bon Jovi and Boston and Rush and all that, but it wasn't really connecting with me. I was still in my boy-band phase - Backstreet Boys for life!

'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of that book, but since then, I have become more aware of having an audience.

Alcohol is a big part of high school. I went through my little phase. I don't know one high schooler that doesn't.

Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure they were jealous of me when I was in my imperial phase.

There was a phase when I and people around me listened to Prince a lot. A lot. We took Prince fandom to the extreme.

I went through a Billy Idol phase. I had white hair when Peter Rizzo hired me at Barneys.

I am a product of '90s movies. I grew up watching '90s films and wanted to become an actor because that was the phase of cinema I enjoyed.

My golden phase was unarguably between the 90s and 2000s.

Children go through things. They go through fads, mistakes, phases, and adults are supposed to guide them.

I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

I came from a two-parent household and my father is a PhD from west Africa, but at the same time I grew up five blocks from where Obama lived and five blocks from the projects.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

I don't want to be one of those bosses... taking credit for phenomena that are out of my control.